The Nestling Trust (TNT) Team Challenge - to Cycle, Trek or Jog 4,900 miles i.e. 70 miles for every year of the Queen's 70-year reign, during the month of June.

Let's celebrate this Platinum Jubilee in a very special way - raising funds to save lives!

Sponsored miles will help save the lives of newborn babies and their mothers, in Nepal, where the neonatal death rate has tripled since the start of the Pandemic. 

Set your own personal target - get sponsored - text the number of miles completed each week to ++44 (0) 7973414601 so we can update and follow the Team's progress.

Baitshwor has a population of about 12,000 people. It is a mountainous remote area in Dolakha, Nepal, where the Nestling Trust and the local government have funded a new Health and Birthing Centre. due to be completed this summer. 

Previously women had to trek many miles across mountain tracks to the nearest birth centre, sometimes giving birth on the way, and in an emergency situation unable to reach help in time. Fear of getting Covid in local towns has also meant that many women give birth in their villages, in unhygienic conditions. Most village homes are without running water, many have earth flooring, and most, have no heating.

 The new medical facility will be within easy reach of the Baiteswor population, as well as providing antenatal, postnatal and birthing facilities, it will provide general health care and health education for villagers.

Funds are still needed to equip and staff the Health and Birthing Centre.

£225 will pay the salary of one nurse for one month.

Examples of other costs:

£450 Salary for two nurses for one month

£250 Delivery bed

£100 Medicine cupboard

£75 Oxygen cylinder

£50 Privacy screens

£20 Therma gun thermometer

£10 Sterile suture and dressing packs

Please join in the TNT Jubilee Challenge - we will be immensely grateful for any miles you can manage either trekking, cycling or jogging, to help us reach our target for this extremely worthwhile cause.